Button



(No Model.)

W. DURAND.

. BUTTON.

No. 328,662. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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UNITED STATES ATENT @rrica.

WALLACE DURAND, OF NEWARK, NElV JERSEY.

BUTTON.

SPECEFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,662, dated October20, 1885.

Application filed August 1, 1885 Serial No. 173,207. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALLAcE DURAND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleeve or other Buttons;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled intheart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to simplify the construction of thebutton, to reduce the cost of the same, to avoid the use of springs inconnection with the adjustable parts, and to thereby increase thedurability of said button, and to provide a device which not onlyresembles closely the old style of cuff-buttons having the immovabledisk-like shoe, but is easily turned or adjusted to allow an easywithdrawal from the cuff without the need of inserting the fingers intothe latter to manipulate the shoe.

The invention consists in the arrangements and combinations of parts,substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied inthe clause of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicatecorresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure l is a planof the under side of the improved button. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the head, showing a certainpost-and-stop projection thereon. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of thesame. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the button, and Fig. 6 is a penspective view of a sleeve which works upon the stud before mentioned.Fig. 7 is an inverted plan, showing two halfshoes arranged to form acontinuous shoe; and Fig. 8 is a sectional view taken through line 3 Insaid drawings, a indicates an outer plate or disk of the button; I), theshank thereof, and c the shoe or inner plate or disk adapted to bethrust through the buttonholes to hold the ends of the cuff together orto the wristband of the shirt. To enable the said shoe and shank to bereadily and easily thrust into and removed from the said button-hole,and to enable the said button to be more easily and securely fastenedtherein, I construct the said button substantially as follows: To thehead or outer plate, a, or to the strengthening-plate 7c, is firstsoldered or otherwise secured a rigid post or stud, d, made preferablyof hollow wire and forming the core or pivotal center of the shank. Uponsaid post is arranged a flat- 6o teued turning portion or sleeve, 6,having at one end a plate, f, which works against the under side of thehead, and at the opposite end a half-shoe, g, the said sleeve beinghollow or tubular to provide a suitable box or bear- 6 ing for thepivotal post (1. \Vhen the parts are together, the post projectsslightly beyond the sleeve to receive a second half-shoe, 7., the saidsecond shoe being soldered or otherwise fixed rigidly upon the post,making, with the yo movable half-shoe, a complete annular disk, 0, asshown in Fig. 7. The movement of the sleeve is limited by any suitablemechanism, so that the movable half-shoe will stop when turned beneaththe rigid half-disk at apoint 7 5 of coincidence therewith. Thepreferred mecha llSlll is shown more clearly in section in Fig.

8,in which in is a limiting or stop projection soldered or formed on theouter plate, or on the strengthening-plate Fig. 3; and a is a recessformed in the periphery of the plate], said recess extending abouthalfway around said plate. By turning the sleeve the halfshoe thereonpasses beneath the fixed half shoe,

lying in a parallel plane therewith, so that the two are easily thrusttogether through the button-hole. In removing the button from the cuff,the head of the button and with it the fixed half-shoe are turned, theflat sleeve and its half-shoe, because of the shape of the 0 former,remaining stationary in its relation to the cuff. \Vhen the twohalf-shoes are brought into the position of coincidence above referredto, the button may be easily removed.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting 5 understood as limitingmyself to the shape or proportions of the half-shoes, for it is evidentFor example, I do not. wish to be that the device will be equallyeffective if one be made smaller than the other.

I am aware that buttons provided with a rotating sleeve and a fixed posthaving curved or semicircular plates which form a divided shoe securedthereto have been so constructed as to operate in a general way similarto my improved construction; but in the device referred to (see patentto Dutemple, No. 119,749) the stop mechanism is arranged upon the faceof the shoe, and in its operation disfigures the parts, and by theexcessive friction is soon liable to wear out the shoe of the buttonbefore the other parts thereof have begun to show any appearance of use.

In my improved button the stop devices are concealed within the face ofthe button, and are so formed as to produce but little if any friction;moreover the additional plates f and h greatly strengthen and stiffenthe parts.

I do not wish to be understood as making any broad claim to theconstruction herein shown and described; but,

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is In asleevebutton, the combination, with a post having plates k 70, rigidlysecured to the opposite ends thereof, one of which, as k, issemicircular in shape, the other, is, being attached to the face-plate,and provided with a stop, an, thereon, of a rotating sleeve pivotallysaid sleeve is rotated, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this27th day of July, 1885.

WALLACE DURAND.

WVitn esses:

OLIVER DRAKE, CHARLES H. PELL.

